Compilation
Panicum dactylon

26 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by D. Hillcoat, 1973 Panicum dactylon L. [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Dactylis dactylon
  • Digitaria stolonifera
  • Agrostis linearis
  • Panicum lineare
  • Paspalum umbelaltum
  • Paspalum dactlon
  • Panicum dactylon
  • Lamium album
  • Cynodon dactylon
  • Paspalum praecox

Flora

Entry for CYNODON Dactylon Pers. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
CYNODON Dactylon Pers. [family POACEAE], Syn. i. 85;—Kunth, Enum. i. 259; Suppl. 203, t. 16, fig. 1; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 26, fig. 1404; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 241; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 212; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 132; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 856; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 11, 79; B. 78; C. 110.
CYNODON linearis Willd. [family POACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. 90.
CYNODON stellatus Willd. [family POACEAE], l.c.; Kunth, l.c. 260.
CYNODON pascuus Nees [family POACEAE], Agrost. Bras. 425; Kunth, l.c. 259; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 243; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 212; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 857.
CYNODON glabratus Steud. [family POACEAE], l.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c.
Panicum Dactylon Linn. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl. 58; Thunb. Prodr. i. 19; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 103; Host, Gram. Austr. ii. 15, t. 18; Engl. Bot. t. 850; Knapp, Gram. Brit. t. 13.
Dactylon officinale Vill. [family ], Hist. Pl. Dauph. ii. 69; Aschers. & Schweinf. Ill. Fl. Egypte, 170.
Digitaria Dactylon Scop. [family ], Fl. Carn. ed. ii. 53.
Digitaria stolonifera Schrad. [family ], Fl. Germ. i. 165, t. 3, fig. 9; Steud. in Flora, 1829, ii. 468.
Information
culms from a few inches to 1 ft. long, slender, glabrous, smooth, many-noded, the lower internodes very short, enclosed, the upper 3–4 much longer, more or less exserted; leaves usually conspicuously distichous in the barren shoots and at the base of the culms; sheaths tight, glabrous or hairy, often bearded at the mouth; ligule a very fine ciliate rim; blades linear, finely acute to pungent, 1/2–6 in. by 1–1 1/2 lin., very rigid to flaccid, folded or convolute or flat, more or less glaucous, glabrous or hairy, smooth below, scaberulous above; spikes 2–6, straight, 1/2–2 1/2 in. long; rhachis pubescent at the base, keel and margins scabrid or the keel smooth; spikelets light green or purplish, 7/8–1 1/8 lin. long; rhachilla produced, very slender, equalling 1/2 the length of the spikelet; glumes lanceolate, acute to subulate-mucronate, the lower 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, the upper usually slightly longer, keels scabrid or smooth; valve obliquely oblong to semi-ovate, subobtuse or minutely apiculate, about 1 lin. long, keel ciliate; keels of pale scaberulous; anthers oblong, 1/2 lin. long; grain 1/2 lin. long. null
Range
Almost cosmopolitan.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; among shrubs, near Somerset East, MacOwan, 2119.COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; near Ebenezer, below 100 ft., Drège! Cape Div.; by streamlets and ditches, near Capetown, Ecklon, 967! sandy places near Green Point, Ecklon, 764! Platt Klipp, near Capetown, Wilms, 3874! roadside towards Constantia Nek, Wolley Dod, 2473! Paarl Div.; near Paarl, in wet places, Drège. Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon. Uitenhage Div.; grassy places by the Zwartkops River, Ecklon; near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4229! Port Elizabeth Div.; on the dunes near Port Elizabeth, below 100 ft., Drège! E.S.C.A. Herb. 93! Queenstown Div.; plains near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 2353!EASTERN REGION Transkei; near the Gekau (Gcua or Geuu) River, below 1000 ft., Drège! Natal; Durban Flats, Buchanan, 12! 34! Berea, Wood, 5930! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 200!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; between Kimberley and Bloemfontein, Buchanan, 289! Kanon Fontein, Rehmann, 3549! Bechuanaland; Kosi Fontein, Burchell, 2570/1! Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5713! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1701!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Thunberg!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand, on the right bank of the Orange River, near Verleptpram, below 500 ft., Drège!
Notes
Extremely variable in habit according to the station. C. pascuus, Nees, is, in my opinion, only a shade form of C. Dactylon.

Related Materials